When you're starting out in photography, with your shiny new DSLR, the world of lenses can be complex and scary place: prime this, wide angle that, and what the hell is focal length anyway? Don't worry! This video should have you covered.
It seems like everyone and their brother is working on some sort of smart glasses, but how about smart contact lenses? It turns out those might actually be closer than you think.
Researchers at Ghent University have been working on smart contact lenses and now they've got a working prototype that uses an LCD display to put images (text mostly) right on your eyeballs. There have been previous attempts at the same general idea, but most of those only let you utilize a couple of pixels for an image, this version can use the whole surface. One of the researchers on the project, Professor Herbert De Smet, described the status of the project this way...
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The concept of vision enhancing glasses came well before the idea of contact lenses, and with augmented reality goggles only just making their way out of the test labs we’d think it would be quite some time before we saw the technology translated into the minutely thin layers of film which make up contacts
According to US development company Innovega though, that wait might not be as long as we’d think. Recently, they’ve announced that lenses able to project 3D screens directly onto people’s eyes could be with us as early as 2014 – the same year that Google has stamped for release of their Project Glass.
After two decades as an electrical engineer, Randy Sprague quit his job in 2008 to start a solar power company. He had been planning the venture for years, saving up, getting his wife’s blessing. But then one morning while taking a shower, he had a brainstorm for an entirely different idea: contact lenses that could act as part of a wearable display. Users could instantly augment their view with information—say, the price of an antique in a store or the species of a tree in the forest—or transform their field of vision into a virtual videogame screen. Suddenly the solar company no longer seemed as appealing.
Our camera lens buying guide takes you through the the world of interchangeable lenses and helps remove a little of the intimidation that comes with buying cameras lenses.
Congratulations! You’ve taken the truly giant photographic leap to an interchangeable lens camera. Sure, compacts had their place and time but now it’s time to spread your picture-taking wings. What follows is a buying guide to your new camera’s most critical accessories—optional lenses.
In a departure from its last introduction as dramatic as the C300's Hollywood launch itself, Canon has quietly announced two additional cameras to sit alongside the company's former lone flagship. You may have caught a glimpse of the EOS-1D C at the C300 launch, but what six months ago was a mere mock-up has actually become a reality, likely to ship sometime this year. More out of left field, however, is the C500 -- a higher-end version of the C300 that adds several shooting modes, dual 3G-SDI ports and a larger, permanent grip. Both cameras can capture 4K video, but in substantially different ways.
Recently Canon announced the introduction of three new lenses to their EF lineup. The long awaited 24-70 f2.8 L II finally broke cover as well as two wide prime lenses with IS, the first of their kind. Much has been made about the projected $2300 price point for the new 24-70 though which is about $1200 more than you can currently get the previous version for. In the last couple of years Canon have updated some old lenses and introduced some new ones, all of which I have found to be exemplary so my gut feeling is that for pros, the price point will be justified. I was never that enamored with the wide open quality of the MKI version of this lens, it’s one of the few L series lenses that I have never owned so the prospect of a higher quality version is something I have looked forward to for some time.
